- 81. Re: Topband: Global Lightning Map (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 07:44:15 -0500
- At 09:42 AM 12/22/03 -0500, you wrote: Brian VE3MGY Asked: Does anyone have a site for a real time global lightning map? The one I used to use to is no longer on the web. Its always nice to know wher
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-12/msg00193.html (8,232 bytes)
- 82. Topband: BC band filter (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 07:36:02 -0500
- I'm wondering if anyone sells a BC band reject filter that could be incorporated in an RX antenna feedpoint, or if anyone has an article or magazine citation that gives circuit and component values.
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-01/msg00078.html (7,061 bytes)
- 83. Re: Topband: Beverages over Radials (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 08:14:57 -0500
- At 10:27 AM 1/7/04 +0000, Clive GM3POI wrote: I'm thinking of a summer time makeover of all my 11 Rx antennas So I will try for the best layout possible to minimise the effect of 5 acres of radials.
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-01/msg00079.html (8,343 bytes)
- 84. Topband: BCB filters (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 09:50:38 -0500
- Thanks to everyone who responded. The consensus, based on price vs performance and the fact that I already have a pre-amp, appears to be the ICE 402, sold by Array Solutions. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-01/msg00081.html (6,836 bytes)
- 85. Re: Topband: BC band filter (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 11:11:02 -0500
- At 10:00 AM 1/7/04 -0500, George & Marijke Guerin wrote: Dear Pete & Topbanders, For a high-pass filter with three nulls within the AM broadcast band, a good construction article is in the 1985 ARRL
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-01/msg00082.html (7,773 bytes)
- 86. Re: Topband: Receivers, Noise Blankers and Key Clicks (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 17:30:05 -0500
- At 03:43 PM 2/4/04 -0500, Tom Rauch wrote: In the FT1000MP MK V, you have to go into a menu and change a NB setting to reduce NB gain. The only reason the MK V tests so much worse than other top-end
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-02/msg00049.html (9,424 bytes)
- 87. Topband: Powering preamp (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 08:41:33 -0500
- How important is it to regulate the DC supplied to a topband preamp? If the preamp is rated to run on a range of voltages ((in this case, an ARR P1-30/20VD rated for 11-16 VDC at 40ma) is it best to
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-02/msg00102.html (7,002 bytes)
- 88. [RFI] Local Noise Environment (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 10:13:20 -0500
- I am trying to figure out my local noise environment and understand what (if anything) I can do to correct it. On my shunt-fed tower, in daytime, the S-meter on my Mark V (which is extremely generous
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-02/msg00242.html (7,353 bytes)
- 89. [RFI] Local noise (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:54:50 -0500
- At the suggestion of a number of people, I have put a 30-second MP3 recording of my noise on my web site at www.qsl.net/n4zr/160noise.mp3. I'd appreciate it if anyone who has time (and maybe an oscil
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-02/msg00246.html (6,614 bytes)
- 90. [RFI] Local noise environment (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 08:56:50 -0500
- A bunch of responses, that I thought would be worth summarizing briefly. Nobody thought that this sort of interference *level* (S9+10) is to be expected. Several people put the noise on waterfall dis
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-02/msg00254.html (9,458 bytes)
- 91. Re: Topband: 3B9C (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 08:14:56 -0500
- At 12:47 AM 3/25/04, Harold Smith wrote: I worked him at 0032Z with my home call of WØRI and at 0037Z with the club call WØCKC. Can I be a little grumpy? Last night was the first time I
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-03/msg00255.html (8,529 bytes)
- 92. Re: Topband: 3B9C not in log (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 06:59:37 -0500
- At 01:52 AM 3/27/04, Jon Rudy-MCC Asia Peace Resource wrote: I have the same problem. I was sure I was logged but its not on line. I wonder if they have a logging problem? My other current QSOs are i
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-03/msg00286.html (8,201 bytes)
- 93. Topband: Breakall 160M antenna (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 22:29:31 -0400
- Has anyone tried the Breakall 160M antenna? The low height, convenient feedpoint impedance and simplicity would seem to make it potentially a very good prospect, at least if you have room for the 180
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-06/msg00042.html (6,689 bytes)
- 94. [TowerTalk] Breakall 160M antenna (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:41:58 -0400
- The antenna I was referring to was described at Dayton in 2003, and has been written up in at least one journal article. Unfortunately, I had a hard disk crash in March and have not recovered most fi
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-06/msg00043.html (7,731 bytes)
- 95. Re: Topband: New Beverage at NØFP (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:00:59 -0400
- At 01:47 PM 8/24/2004, Bodine, Dick N. wrote: It's not the fact that Ford has his images pointing to his C drive, I believe he's doing some redirecting to display the image but that's about the limit
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-08/msg00064.html (8,181 bytes)
- 96. Re: Topband: K9AY Antenna Question (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 09:07:38 -0400
- At 09:07 PM 8/28/2004, Kelley wrote: I just bought a few vactrol's from B G Micro for use in my K9AY antenna in place of the fixed termination resistors. Looking at some older posts, it appears that
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-08/msg00116.html (7,478 bytes)
- 97. Re: Topband: Aluminum Push Up Mast (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 17:20:13 -0400
- At 12:46 PM 9/7/2004, Dick wrote: I want to construct a 47 foot top hat loaded vertical...does anyone know of an aluminum push-up mast that may meet this requirement...want to insulate it from ground
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-09/msg00048.html (7,394 bytes)
- 98. Re: Topband: 160m noise (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:20:13 -0500
- The common-mode choke arrangement described by ON4UN in his Low-Band DXing book (Third Edition, Fig. 7-19 and the text in section 9.2 on pages 7-18/19) seems to meet Tom's specification -- high serie
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-11/msg00078.html (10,439 bytes)
- 99. Re: Topband: Vertical SWR problem (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 07:21:06 -0500
- Hi Jim -- I assume you've tried what George suggested, without any luck, but it is the right thing to do given the symptoms. Didn't you say that the tap was already all the way to the antenna end of
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-11/msg00236.html (10,751 bytes)
- 100. Topband: Non-optimum antennas (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 08:50:31 -0500
- At 05:53 AM 12/6/2004, Tom Rauch wrote: Frankly Greg there is no iron-clad rule about how these systems work and what they do. Results depend heavily on the tower and what is on it and a half-dozen o
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-12/msg00099.html (9,249 bytes)
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